+1 On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:02 PM, kenneth gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 21:47 +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote: > >> If a person wishes to answer a question, he chooses the easiest way or >> his own way to reply. >> When we ask him to change the way he replies, he gets the same >> thoughts on mind as >> >> "I get little free time, I wish to make it useful for the community. >> I check email and reply, if I know the answers for any queries. >> If there are restrictions a.k.a guidelines on how I have to reply to a >> email, >> I will skip replying, instead of formatting the email for better >> readability. > > to be frank, we do not need such people on this list. This attitude is > typical of the casual, sloppy, unprofessional attitude towards work that > many people have. If you do something, take pride in doing it to the > best of your ability in an orderly and correct manner, respecting the > rules and conventions followed in the field in which you are operating. > If you cannot, do everyone a favour by going and doing something else. > Formulating a reply on a mailing list - or contributing code to a > project, or filing a bug report or anything else worth doing is worth > doing well. An example: > > one fine day I had the bright idea of contributing a small feature to > the django project. I studied all the guidelines I could find, looked at > the code in similar modules, wrote up the patch, tried it out and then > posted a ticket and sat back waiting for acceptance and praise to flow > in. Some one accepted the ticket and said 'where are your tests?'. I > said 'doctests are there'. He said 'we need unit tests'. I went back, > wrote unit tests, ran them and resubmitted. Then he said - 'tests are > failing for python 2.5'. Went back, set up a virtualenv, installed 2.5 > and found the problem was upstream. The guy was good enough to check the > upstream problem, and let me know when it was fixed. Tests passed - I > resubmitted. Then he asks - 'you have not added docs for the new > feature'. Went back and added docs. Resubmitted. Then he wants all the > changes in one patch. Figured out how to do that and finally, after 6 > months, my 10 lines of code was accepted. > > At last inpycon, I was relating my experience to a friend who is a top > class programmer and an expert in django. He said he had the same > experience and was like 'who do these guys think they are? They should > be grateful for any contribution - not nitpick on the formatting'. He > refuses to contribute. That to me sounds like the attitude of top > posters in this list. >> >> I am not getting this regulations, in office > > office mail is totally different - most offices have the policy of > compulsory top posting and full quoting of the mail in order to keep > context. >> and in most of the other lists. > > which lists are these? >> If there are regular inspection on how I am replying, I will be just a >> reader than contributor" > > so be it - as far as I am concerned the only greater pleasure than > reading well crafted, precisely formatted replies to queries on mailing > lists is managing to write such replies. > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
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